When a person gets syphilis infection and doesn’t get it treated, it could lead to a slowly progressive degeneration of the spinal cord, known as tabes dorsalis. Tabes is a Latin word, meaning decay.

If left untreated, tabes dorsalis can lead to paralysis, dementia, and blindness. Existing nerve damage cannot be reversed. We work with experts and keep a close eye on the latest in health and ...

THE morphine alkaloids have had little success in controlling posterior-root pains in tabes dorsalis. Because of this a case in which a tabetic patient was relieved by intravenous administration of ...

Based on: On Tabes Dorsalis. The Lumleian Lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians, London, March, 1906. By David Ferrier, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. 8vo ...